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Former Title IX coordinator says Baylor kept her from doing her job

Patty Crawford, who resigned this week as Baylor’s Title IX coordinator and refused to sign a confidentiality agreement, said Wednesday that the school set her up to fail in her job.

Crawford and her lawyer appeared on CBS This Morning to talk about why she resigned from Baylor after working for the school for the past two years in the office that investigates allegations of sexual assault.

“I think Baylor set me up to fail, from the beginning, in November 2014,” Crawford told the morning show. “”I continued to work very hard, and the harder I worked the more resistance I received from senior leadership. I increased reports by 700 percent during my time, and it became clear that was not something the university wanted. In July, I made it clear in writing that I had concerns that the university was violating Title IX and my environment got worse.”

Crawford’s lawyer also represented former Baylor associate athletic director Tom Hill, who was fired when Baylor purged football coach Art Briles and school president Ken Starr, May 26. The terminations came after a review conducted by a Philadelphia law firm found that the football team believed itself to be above the rules when dealing with sexual assault allegations made against its players. Baylor released recommendations from Pepper Hamilton, but never revealed the actual report.

Hill since has agreed to a settlement and signed a confidentiality agreement.

Crawford said: “A very small percentage of our cases have anything to do with athletics. And I’ve made that very clear to our leadership. This is not an athletics issue in the sense of violence and all these things, this is a human issue.”

Crawford told athletic department officials that Baylor administrators wanted her to identify the people who had reported sexual assaults.

“That’s what we talked about this week, I said this has to be very clear that at this point, no one is going to know, other than our office, who these people are, what their names are, where this is going”, Crawford says.

“Because there have been occasions where I’ve been called on my cellphone on a Sunday morning by a board member wanting names.”

Baylor issued a statement to CBS saying that Crawford refused a $1 million settlement because she also wanted the rights to a book and/or movie deal.

“Baylor University was surprised by the action taken by Patty Crawford given her public comments about the strong support she felt from across the University … Her demand for one million dollars and her request to retain book and movie rights was troubling.”